The Class of 83: The Punishers of Mumbai Police is directed
by Anurag Kashyap adapted from S Hussain Zaidi's book on Mumbai crime and
Underworld. This book is a critique on the encounter specialists of the Mumbai
Police Force.
Vijay Singh, an honest police officer is the Dean of the
Officer's Training School in Nashik. He has been given punishment posting
there. He is haunted by a failed operation against a gangster Kalsekar and secondly by
the death of his wife, Sudha. Both these events have scared him emotionally. He
chooses five underperforming students for this operation who are well known for
their friendship, truth and loyalty namely Pramod Shukla, Vishnu Varde, Aslam
Khan, Lakshman Jadhav and Janardan Surve. Along with them, the training
inspector Mangesh Dixit and DCP Raghav Desai are aware of this plan. Raghav
Desai helps him to form an off-the-records team specializing in encounter
killings. Some time later, rivalry over encounter credits and lure for money
tears the team apart.
This movie gives a feel of 1980s Mumbai as we can see cars
like Fiat and Ambassador, BEST buses, mills, newspaper office and printing
area. Vijay Singh is shown using a machine gun to kill the gangster. Vijay
Singh is shown as a brooding mentor who is constantly battling his inner
demons. He does not speak much but his eyes convey every dialogue. In the end,
the gangster is killed and the four officers are held guilty in the court and
get sentenced for a few years.
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